The committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may advise the agency to change the current recommendation that all infants receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine shortly after birth, according to a document released on Sept. 18.
Advisers will vote at the end of a meeting on Sept. 18 on whether the childhood immunization schedule should be updated to state that for children born to mothers who test negative for the illness, the vaccine “is not given until the child is at least one month old,” the document shows.
